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The Federal Government has said that it plans to spend N178.9 billion on the implementation of the eight priority areas of the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Zaphaniah Jisalo, made this known in the executive summary of the 63-page FMSDIGA strategic plan 2024-2028 presented on Wednesday in Abuja. According to the minister, the key priority areas of the strategic plan includes food security, ending poverty, economic growth/job creation, access to capital, inclusivity, security, fairness and rule of law and anti-corruption stance. Jisalo said his ministry is among the three…

The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Lekan Balogun, Alli Okunmade II, is dead. He was aged 81. Oba Balogun spent two years on the throne of his forefathers, having been presented the Staff of Office by the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on March 11, 2022. Confirming his death in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Sulaimon Olanrewaju, on Thursday, Makinde said Oba Balogun died Thursday evening at the University College Hospital, Ibadan. The governor described the late monarch as a towering figure akin to an Iroko tree. He wrote, “With total submission to the will of God, I announce…

The leadership of United Abia Artiste and Patriot Forum (UAAP) has congratulated the Board of Trustee (BoT) Chairman of the organization Chief Raymond Nkemdirim as he celebrates his birthday today. In a press release, signed by the President of UAAP Amb. Dr. Osita Offor “De Ultimate Commander” and General Secretary Comrade Emenike Jason Iroegbu, the organization described Chief Raymond Nkemdirim as a worthy son of Abia State that should be celebrated all the time. The organization went further to appreciate Chief Raymond for his consistency and support towards the goals and aspiration of UAAP. They prayed for long live, sound…

President Bola Tinubu is considering stepping down the nomination of Dr. Ruby Onwudiwe as a member of the Board of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The President via a letter to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio which was read on the floor of the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly requested her confirmation as the representative of the South East on the board of the apex bank. Immediately after the news of her nomination, screenshots of her social media surfaced where she flaunted her support for Labour Party (LP) and its Presidential candidate, Peter Obi in the last presidential election…

Senator Abdulaziz Yar’adua, younger brother of late President Umaru Yar’adua and lawmaker representing Katsina Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly has emerged as the Chairman of Northern Senators Forum. Recall The Whisperer reported that Abdul Ningi (PDP-Bauchi), who was on Tuesday suspended for three months for alleging that the 2024 budget was padded to the tune of N3 trillion, resigned as Chairman, Northern Senators’ Forum (NSF). Mr Ningi, in a letter addressed to the Secretary of NSF on Tuesday in Abuja said:”I will like to resign my position as Chairman Northern Senators’ Forum. “This is of course necessitated by…

A group of Northern Civil Activists and renowned Non State actors under the auspices of Arewa Youth Leaders for Good Governance has condemned the suspension order on Sen. Abdul Ahmed Ningi of Bauchi Central Senatorial District, who was also the Chairman of the Northern Senators Forum of the 10th Assembly, describing the suspension order as unfortunate and too harsh. In a Press Release on Thursday, the Speaker of the Group Comr. Abdul Danbature, explained that the action of Sen. Ningi to blow the whistle against Budget Padding, which all Nigerians are aware has been a recurring decimal in the country’s…

The Federal Government has budgeted N2.5billion for Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, to procure deep freezers, generators and other items as empowerment projects for his constituents The Whisperer reports that Akapbio, a former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, represents the people of Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District in the National Assembly. A screenshot of the budget shared by SaharaReporters revealed that the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs inserted five different empowerment projects for Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District at the sum of N500,000,000 each. “EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN WITH DEEP FREEZERS, GENERATORS AND OTHER EMPOWERMENT ITEMS TO BOOST THEIR DAILY…

Abia State Governor, Alex Otti has said contrary to the misleading falsehood being peddled by former Governor Okezie Ikpeazu’s aides that the former Governor never left any debt in any Commercial Bank, that verifiable evidence showed the past administration in the state left a debt profile of over N109b. According to a statement by Otti’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ferdinand Ekeoma, the debt were owed the commercial banks as follows, UBA, N8,012,830, 371.44; Zenith Bank, N21, 557, 168, 761.71; Union Bank, N597, 637, 399. The statement added that over N40b was owed to Central Bank of Nigeria “in…

Senate Chief Whip, Ali Ndume, says as a principal officer in the 10th National Assembly, he got more than the N200m allocation his colleagues and floor members got for constituency projects in the 2024 Appropriation Act. “My colleagues know that I go more than them (floor members),” the Senator from Borno South Senatorial District said on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Wednesday. “All the senators have N200m (each) as their constituency projects but I am a leader. That is the difference. 10 of us are leaders including those in the opposition. We get more than the floor members. It’s…

Barely 24 hours after a dramatic plenary culminating into the suspension of the Chairman of the Northern Senators Forum, Senator Abdul Ningi, Southern Senators have revived their forum, electing Senator Adetokunbo Abiru representing Lagos East, as Chairman. The inauguration of Abiru who replaces the Senate Leader, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele as well as the Vice Chairman, Senator Victor Umeh representing Anambra, comes nine months after commencement of the 10th Senate. The 51 Senators from 17 southern states, who met on Wednesday to revive the forum, also elected six executives under Abiru’s chairmanship. Bamidele noted that like the northern forum, the southern…